Pooh is a bundle of comorbidities that may include cognitive impairment, as he is often described as a "bear of very little brain." "Early on, we see Pooh being dragged downstairs bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head," the authors write. "Could his later cognitive struggle be the result of a type of Shaken Bear Syndrome?"

Regan - loved the article! (I couldn't see the Irony link at work). As someone in the counseling field, it both made total sense and was pretty funny.

I loved the idea that Edward Cullen had Pica because he drank blood (Pica is where kids eat inappropriate things - grass, dirt, lint). That was pretty funny. But I especially liked that the Pooh characters were a mass of psychological disorders. Lol. Thanks for sharing it.

The Pooh comments must come from the same people who have decided that early Sesame Street episodes are detrimental to young children because Big Bird has an imaginary friend that he interacts with and the kids are regularly shown hanging around adults to whom they aren't related.

Josin wrote:The Pooh comments must come from the same people who have decided that early Sesame Street episodes are detrimental to young children because Big Bird has an imaginary friend that he interacts with and the kids are regularly shown hanging around adults to whom they aren't related.

Peter Pan - Narcissistic? Can you diagnose a child with that? And what's with the flying? Is he hallucinating, on a substance or does he have some weird medical abnormality that allows him to defy gravity and fly from London to islands in the middle of nowhere?

I always wanted to be the kind of therapist Judd Hirsch was in Ordinary People. Except without the smoking.

This article is awesome, because I do this all the time. I diagnose characters in books and movies. For example, I'm pretty sure that Alaska Young has Bi-Polar disorder. Roger Greenberg in Noah Baumbach's film has Narcissistic Personality Disorder. It's a fun hobby.